“We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.” KnowsWayYearsLittlesMadeHandsChristianLeftWeekTeachingGoes OnPagesFoundationJewScriptureBoastOracles Author:Charles Henry Mackintosh
“I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.” ThinkingKnowsShouldLittlesTwoBookBitsInterestingGoes OnLittle BitPagesSplits Author:Chris Abani
“One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.” KnowsDoneForeverGoes OnPagesProseRevising Author:May Sarton
“Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.” ThinkingWellsStillsReasonTeacherFineGoes OnPagesCriticismLockedPlatoLocked Up Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“When I used to go on the Wikipedia page, and I haven't gone on the page in a while, there used to be some guy who was doing my page and he would say that he was my cousin and I was going to be doing projects with him. I don't know who this person is and I don't have a cousin by this name and this person keeps saying that they're doing projects with me. It's so weird.” KnowsPersonsUsedGuyNamesGoneHavensGoes OnProjectsPagesUsed To BeCousinWikipediaMy Cousin Author:Demetri Martin
“But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote.” PeopleWorldWantWritingFirstsKindStoriesActionGuyFeltNovelGoes OnCouplePagesHundredRuinsEpicEngaging Author:Neal Stephenson
“I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times.” MeanI CanTwoMightPerfectGoes OnPages Author:Dean Koontz
“It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I say I can't remember. I'm just appalled by the memoirs published by people who regurgitate dialogue, conversations from when they were small children, and they go on for three or four pages. I can't even remember what we said to each other ten minutes ago! How can I remember what was said sixty years ago? It's not possible.” PeopleYearsChildrenMadeSaidI CanRememberThreeFourMinutesGoes OnReaderTenConversationPagesYears AgoMemoirDialogueEthicalSixtySmall ChildPact Author:Paul Auster
“Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.” IfsThinkingWayWritingKindI CanCan DoEffortGoes OnPagesDelightScreenplays Author:Daniel Clowes
“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” IfsInspirationalFirstsBookEndsStoriesLastsGoes OnPagesInsperationalCheer Up Author:Cornelia Funke
“Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.” WorldDoeBookWholeStoriesBehindsGoes OnPagesLettersWhole WorldDevelopingPrintedInkheartKeyholes Author:Cornelia Funke
“I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by” WorldRealWaitingGoes OnTerribleRight NowPagesSkinsDisappointmentDrunkReal WorldFloatingPulseProtectiveMembranes Book:The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
“All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.” WorldInspirationalStoriesEarthLastsThis WorldAdventureGoes OnPagesTitlesChaptersNarniaScrewtape LettersTill We Have Faces Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.” WorldFeelsChoicesUniverseReadingLostFeltBitsSportsGoes OnTasteKissingPagesDrinkingCoffeeDrySunlightCleaningRippleLost MyselfDry Cleaning Book:This Lullaby Source: This Lullaby